Within an hour I read Frank Bruni's newsleterr (subscribe here) commenting on criticism of scientists re: covid:
What an inevitability. Science doesn’t usually figure everything out all at once; it’s a steadily growing body of knowledge, and its application, especially in the face of new circumstances, can amount to an educated guess, imperfect but invaluable. In the case of Covid, there was no awful screw-up. There was, instead, astonishing speed: These vaccines, powerfully effective, were developed and distributed in record time.
and a Kevin Drum tweet responding to a Ryan Cooper tweet along the same lines:
Because scientists have the odd notion that they should look for rigorous evidence. The public doesn't give a shit about that. https://t.co/ALAdQfNxwm
— Kevin Drum (@kdrum) December 2, 2021
I agree with both--there's a lot of impatience these days. After a long life (hopefully to be much longer) I've grown more tolerant of people (except the people who post erroneous things on the Internet)
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